I’m up in the air, personally. I have no desire to create filters atm. All I’m really looking for are ways of creating seamless textures from scratch (not via photos). I’ve seen this can do seamless textures, but I’m not sure if it does it the way I’m looking for. The seamless texture program I was looking at, Seamless Studio, was pulled due to conflicts with the recent version of Adobe Air, and I don’t own Illustrator. =/

Well 70% is the big sale and is somewhat rare. It also means they are probably getting ready to release 4.0 soon.

On the topic of 4.0, it looks like there are only two features iteration (recursion & loops) and nesting. Both look like good features, but I’m wondering how much the upgrade price would be for the two features…. For people that create filters, they could be very valuable features, especially if creating filters from snippits of other filters. For people who mostly consume filters, it would only be for using 4.0 filters, which would depend on how much and how fast filter developers take it up…. or so it would appear to me at this juncture.

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Just because I may have a strong opinion doesn’t make it any more (or less) correct than any other, just that I feel passionately a particular way at that moment.

That’s just one pricing, however. It appears you can upgrade from an earlier version to a later version (except from 1.0) and you can upgrade from a “lower” package to a “higher” package (e.g., Basic 3.0 to Basic 4.0 or Basic 3.0 to Pro 3.0).

The nice thing is that the upgrade pricing is equal - so if you buy something now and upgrade to Pro 4.0 later, you’ll spend the same amount of money no matter which route you take.

...looks like I picked the wrong time to get laid off from work. That price on the Pro version is so tempting, just that my once meager income has been reduced to about two thirds of what it was making such decisions even harder.

Don’t have PS but I understand FilterForge can be used as a standalone.

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...it’s five minutes to midnight…

I’d rather have a blue sky above me than a blue screen in front of me.

Don’t have PS but I understand FilterForge can be used as a standalone.

That’s correct, though I do use it standalone even though I also have Photoshop. I originally bought FF 1, upgraded to FF 2, and finally upgraded to FF 3. I doubt I’ll upgraded any further as I find I don’t use it as often as I thought I would, so I just can’t see continuing the upgrade path at this point.

For those who have never had it, this is good pricing, so if you can spare the cash, go for it.

...have to check my account later today (as it is in effect, “payday”) to see if I can manage it. At 199$ the pro version is just too good to pass on since it lets me create new filters and will let me use all the cores of my CPU for processing.

Been wanting this for some time now.

Getting more into playing with textures & surfaces and just DL’d the latest update to Marvelous Designer. In the long run I can see this paying itself back as I will be able to create my own custom texture and surface effects.

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...it’s five minutes to midnight…

I’d rather have a blue sky above me than a blue screen in front of me.